Originally posted by ignant
they look to be 3 objects rising steadily, as helium balloons
that happen to form into a triangle at some point during the individual ascents.

That then move laterally while staying in triangle formation?

I'd rather believe formation flying of jets or helicopters, but both jets and helicopters make LOTS of noise, helicopters cannot come that close to
each other especially above/blow and jets would move a lot faster than that.

Wow great videos coming out! I clearly saw a triangle formation in two of the videos from the compilation video someone posted. There's no way in
hell balloons or lanterns can maintain formation like that. Excellent thread going to be keeping an eye on this one!

As a fellow NY'er living in the city. I can attest to everything you've said.

This is a very odd occurrence that seems to have lasted for quite a few minutes and was filmed from various angles. It's clear to me that something
was indeed filmed in the night sky. What they were, remains anyones guess..

Lanterns would be my leading explanation, but in my 34 years here I've never seen those things launched (not to say they couldn't ever be).

YEs its hard to prove wether it is, but how can you be so sure that it isnt?

Maybe they dont land because they are scared, maybe they just want to observe from above. Maybe they just have no need to come down yet?

There are so many explanations for why they are only dots, maybe they are only #ing lanterns who knows. But why have such a closed minded view?

I can't say for sure it's not, i'm not close-minded at all... don't confuse closed-mind with skeptic mind... These dot-lights just look like many
other footage that has been debunked already.. Why should it be different here ? because of the kids wondering "Wahhhhhhhhhh aliens" near the camera
?
i'm just not into "blind-believing", but if some slow-moving light-dots are enough to convince you it is, it's not enough for me...

btw cmon, I'm sure you can come up with some more convincing arguments than the few you gave to defend your point of view :-)
"They are too scared to land" --> why would they come if they're scared of us ? plus why would they be scared of us ? pathetics insects who can't even
space travel decently yet and who could even hardly chase them in low-atmosphere... :-)
"They're here to observe" --> why not just 1 ship then ?

Just imagine you're an alien commander in a ship... Exploring / Spying / Studying / whatever earth and its inhabitants... then ask yourself a few
questions... for example "Why would you slowly lurk around a populated city and just do nothing ?" "Why would we need to waste energy and time to
bring several ships to this planet and do nothing around ? Isn't just one ship enough for spying / exploring ?", ... (Well, some would say they landed
in a secret place to negociate nasty things with illuminati, but that's another "problem"

)

Anyway, I don't want people to not believe in what they want it to be... I just wish that people ask themselves (much) more objective questions before
concluding this... and I put an highlight on some of these question... You make your mind

but stay objective, and take into account that it's in
human nature to see what we want to see.

Anyway... let's be open-minded and speculate about what it can be instead of what it can't... I've seen many "lantern speculation" which I tend to
agree with in this thread, but i'm very surprised (maybe even a bit disapointed) that no one yet claimed "False flag"... with NY evacuation, recent
speeches about "alien invasions can save our economy" and that kind of stuff...
I don't believe it is, but still much more likely than a little fleet of alien spaceships with lights lurking around a city doing nothing if you ask
me

NB: to people questionning my "undecover" point of view, please tell me why isn't there any clearly convincing footage out there if they are not
hiding ? Why do we need imagination to reach to the alien conclusion ? with the % of people owning videorecorders / photo recorders, shouldn't a
certain % of footage be convincing enough by themselves if they are here and not hiding? It's statistically very-not-likely... What conclusion do you
prefer ? "They like discretion for some reasons" or "Nothing decent is captured because there is just nothing to capture" ? Don't know about you, but
as a believer (yeah I know, it may not seem obvious I am to you...), I prefer the first option :-)

NB 2: Many of you will notice I use the words "Why" and "What" relatively often in this post... This is the key... Questionning... It's the only thing
that could, someday turn speculations into facts, nothing else will do the trick. Problem is, it can also turn speculations into bull#s, so many don't
ask question just to don't risk to get a proof that would decieve them... Not to mention these two keywords (why and what) have been the fuel of
science since a few hundred years, and will probably still be in a few hundread years.

people really should start carrying powerful cameras with zoom lenses. Were it not for the possibility of some daft hoaxer finding the time and going
through the trouble of launching chinese lanterns right before a hurricane, these would be pretty good ufo videos

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